Making voting more accessible for veterans with disabilities
Recommended practical and efficient ways to improve voting technologies and election administration practices to assist injured military personal in voting. Continue reading
Civic Design Bibliography | voting-systems
Universal access in e-voting for the blind
Proposes a multimodal approach to voting systems that is easy to use and trustworthy for all populations to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction of the voter experience. Continue reading
Accessible voting: one machine, one vote for everyone
Reviews Prime III, an open-source multi-modal electronic voting system that grants equal access, privacy, and secure voting for people with disabilities without the assistance of others. Continue reading
T-DRE: a hardware trusted computing base for direct recording electronic vote machines
Evaluated Direct Recording Voting Machines (T-DRE) and its security systems concerning voting privacy, verifiability, signed-code execution, and resilience. Continue reading
An evaluation of web-based voting usability and accessibility
Assessed web-based voting technology and found that universal design principles were not fully understood or not prioritized for implementation by solution providers. Continue reading
Electronic voting machines versus traditional methods: improved preference, similar performance
Evaluated computer-based voting (DRE) systems against traditional voting methods (paper ballots, punch cards, and lever machines). Continue reading
Voting and technology: who gets to count your vote?
The authors discussed the disadvantages of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems, including issues of security and accuracy. Continue reading
Looking at accessibility as a design problem
Reflected upon design for disabilities and accessibility through Graham Pullin’s book. Continue reading
Voting on a smartphone: evaluating the usability of an optimized voting system for handheld mobile devices
Usability of a voting system for smartphones offer remote participation in elections to increase voter participation. Continue reading
Elderly voters: some improvements in voting accessibility from 2000 to 2004 elections
The authors required policymakers to think broadly about voter access with respect to transportation, polling places, voting equipment, and alternative voting methods, as well as review state provisions and practices for older voters. Continue reading
Reducing Obstacles to Voting for People with Disabilities
A report on turnout and voting difficulties among people with disabilities. Continue reading
Losing Votes by Mail
A discussion of the lost-votes problem in terms of voting by mail (VBM). Continue reading
From Locomotive to Bullet Train: Street-Level Implementation of E-Voting
An analysis of the implementation challenges associated with switching from mechanical voting systems to electronic technologies. Continue reading
An examination of vote verification technologies
A report on a project reviewing vote verification technologies for the State of Maryland. Continue reading
Guidelines for using color in voting systems
Guidelines for the use of color in electronic voting systems usability and be more universal design for users with color vision deficiencies and low vision. Continue reading
Testing alternative hardware and ballot forms
A review of methods for evaluating alternative hardware and ballot designs. Continue reading
Development of a user-based conformance test for the usability of voting equipment
A report, funded by NIST, on work to develop requirements in the EAC Voluntary Voting System Standards (VVSG) Continue reading
Using extended and enhanced usability to provide access to mainstream electronic voting machines
A report on usability and prototypes studies at the Trace Center to identify possible universal design solutions for accessible voting. Continue reading
Managing requirements for e-voting systems
A technical review of the process of following laws and standards for the development and management of electronic voting systems. Continue reading
A comparison of usability between voting methods
A comparative usability test of paper ballots and lever voting systems showed significant differences in voter satisfaction, but not efficiency or efficacy. Continue reading